I can't comment about other areas, but in my area, there is no way that unemployment has dropped. It continues to climb and everyday I'm seeing the result of it

The biggest indicator I see is people moving in together...multiple households sharing expenses. Single people as well as families. To split the burden of rent, utilities, etc.

These are people that used to live comfortably on their own....not young people leaving the nest for the first time.

Quoting: ladyannie2009

And this further reduces the need for housing units.

So Obama's effort to jump-start HOMEBUILDING, of all industries, is corrupt. Well I guess he wants jobs for his illegal population, but it's really a stupid policy for the overall economy. Housing will contract, and the last thing we need is more housing.

Did we add 114,000 jobs? Probably so. That is a LOW number. We need about 200,000 at least per month to stay even. So 114,000 new jobs translates to higher unemployment.

So why did the count of unemployed go down? I think it's as simple as people exhausting their unemployment benefits and no longer being counted as unemployed. In fact, didn't we read a month or two ago that Obama was going to kick people off unemployment soon? I guess it's happening now and making his percentage unemployment look better.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent last month, dropping below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years and giving President Barack Obama a potential boost with the election a month away.

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I call BS! As soon as my phone alerts started going off this morning about it....I was like..that's a bunch of bs lies!

But oh how convenient this "looks" for Mr. Obama!

Quoting: Texas2012

Next they will come out with a story something like...

We really never killed Osama Bin Laden last year....BUT we just killed him yesterday. YaY?

watching the "run up" to the elections and the "hopes and dreams" that are built as a result is like watching a dead mouse that is still able to make his exercise wheel go around because his nerves are still twitching that familiar motion...